A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF VOICE CATEGORIES IN ENGLISH AND UZBEK: A THEORETICAL GRAMMAR APPROACH
Abstract
This paper presents a comparative theoretical analysis of the grammatical category of voice in English and Uzbek. The category of voice reflects the relationship between the subject and the action expressed by the verb, representing one of the core components of verbal morphology and syntax. While English, as an analytic language, primarily expresses voice through syntactic constructions involving auxiliary verbs and participial forms, Uzbek, as an agglutinative language, uses affixation and verb derivation to denote voice distinctions. The study identifies the structural, semantic, and functional characteristics of voice forms in both languages, highlighting the similarities and divergences in their linguistic representation. The findings reveal that although both languages share universal communicative functions such as agency reversal and emphasis on the object, their grammatical mechanisms differ fundamentally. This research contributes to the theoretical understanding of voice typology and its role in expressing syntactic relations across unrelated language families.
Keywords
voice category, theoretical grammar, comparative linguistics, passive, reflexive, causative, analytic and agglutinative structures, English, Uzbek.
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